AI Challenge

RSNA Pulmonary Embolism Detection Challenge Awards

The RSNA Pulmonary Embolism Detection Challenge, organized in collaboration with the Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR), invited AI researchers to build algorithms to detect and characterize instances of pulmonary embolism. Hundreds of teams from around the world participated in the Challenge. Prize money was provided by Kaggle, host of the competition platform.

Watch the awards presentation to learn how the AI Challenge was conducted, understand the significance of its outcomes and see the winning teams present their approaches and solutions.

Winning entries

Team name
Guanshuo Xu, H20.ai, Mountain View, CA
HIGH D-DIMER: Ian Pan, MD, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH
VinBigData-Medical Imaging: Dat Ngo and Dung Nguyen Ba, Vingroup Big Data Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
kazumax: Kazuma Matsuura, Ricoh, Tokyo, Japan
deepread.ai: Darragh Hanley, DoubleYard and UC - Berkeley
OsciiArt: Osamu Akiyama, Osaka University Hospital, Osaka, Japan
Yuval Reina, D-Fend, Tel Aviv, Israel
[Aillis] Yuji + Jan + yama: Jan Peter Bremer, University of Hamburg, Hamburg Germany; Yuji Ariyasu, Aillis, Inc., Tokyo; Taiki Sugiyama, Tokyo
shimacha: Rin Sato, Naoto Shimakoshi, Tokyo
orkatz: Or Katz, NEC Corp., Israel
Team name: Guanshuo Xu, H20.ai, Mountain View, CA
Team name: HIGH D-DIMER: Ian Pan, MD, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH
Team name: VinBigData-Medical Imaging: Dat Ngo and Dung Nguyen Ba, Vingroup Big Data Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
Team name: kazumax: Kazuma Matsuura, Ricoh, Tokyo, Japan
Team name: deepread.ai: Darragh Hanley, DoubleYard and UC - Berkeley
Team name: OsciiArt: Osamu Akiyama, Osaka University Hospital, Osaka, Japan
Team name: Yuval Reina, D-Fend, Tel Aviv, Israel
Team name: [Aillis] Yuji + Jan + yama: Jan Peter Bremer, University of Hamburg, Hamburg Germany; Yuji Ariyasu, Aillis, Inc., Tokyo; Taiki Sugiyama, Tokyo
Team name: shimacha: Rin Sato, Naoto Shimakoshi, Tokyo
Team name: orkatz: Or Katz, NEC Corp., Israel

2020 Educational Merit Award

The Educational Merit Award, newly created for 2020, is a distinction to recognize a winner from among the top 10 teams whose entry is deemed outstanding in the clarity, completeness, organization and efficiency of submitted code.

The 2020 Educational Merit Award was presented to:

Ian Pan, MD

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